The dark side of AI
Artificial intelligence can optimize all industrial manufacturing processes - from production and plant monitoring to supply chain management. However, a hasty deployment could result in technical debt for the company.
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Artificial intelligence can optimize all industrial manufacturing processes - from production and plant monitoring to supply chain management. However, a hasty deployment could result in technical debt for the company.
For developers of modern vision systems, various factors are decisive in product development in order to create reliable systems in an environment of high data transfer rates and miniaturization. Last but not least, the design of the peripheral components is important.
AI-based systems for automated quality control cannot avoid the time-consuming collection of image data. At BMW in Dingolfing, an inspection cell has been in operation since July 2023, which starts camera-based visual inspection from the very first car body.

43% of managers from the automotive industry surveyed in Germany use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) in machine vision. This is one of the findings of the 'AI Machine Vision in the Automotive Industry Benchmark Report'.
The edge AI system 'Vision Box AI' from Imago Technologies is based on Nvidia's 'Jetson AGX Orin' computer module. It is designed for vision applications and inference programs.

MVTec Software has launched a new version of its image processing software 'Merlic'. In version 5.4, the focus has been placed on easier process integration.

3D cameras in autonomous vehicles and robots must always have a very precise view of their surroundings and be able to reliably recognize objects in their environment. ifm is working together with Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences (RWU) on the '3DRobust' research project.

checked up on! - with Steffen Winkler
Steffen Winkler from Bosch Rexroth explains how important artificial intelligence has become in industry and how automation specialists are using AI.

Matrix Vision and Balluff are combining their expertise in the field of image processing - and further expanding their service portfolio. The Oppenweiler site will be retained.

The ultra high-speed camera 'Phantom T4040' from High Speed Vision enables the analysis of fast sporadic events in research, development, automation and quality assurance.